New Approaches o Global Diaspora Societies is a collection of scholarly essay funded by the Ford Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities to develop the integration of areas studies and ethnic studies knowledge into a new curriculum model for multi-cultural studies. This volume is unique in its approach to historical Diasporas in that it explores some of the cross currents within Diasporic communities in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the United States providing new insight into America’s new ethnic majorities. In eighteen chapters the authors examined the historical/political dynamics, and the language/literary traditions and the arts and creative expressions of several ethnic and global Diasporic communities. This anthology serves as a textbook for the Introduction to Comparative Ethnic and Global Societies that would be useful as a text in African Studies, African American Studies, Asian Studies; Chicano/a Studies and Women Studies respectively.